Archive for November, 2006
Supermodel Kate Moss has reportedly offered to pay $50,000 for Pete Doherty to get veneers fitted on his teeth by a top dentist.
A source close to the couple told the Daily Mail: “with all [his] drug abuse, they are rotting in his head. They look yellow and the back ones have even fallen out. They’re so rotten you could probably flick them and they’d break.”
According to the paper, Pete is more than happy to accept his fiancee’s offer, telling friends: “My missus doesn’t want me to end up looking like our mate Shane MacGowan.”
The pair are expected to marry over Christmas or early in the new year.
November 11th, 2006
A little glitz and glamour was added to the Israeli stand at the Word Travel Market (WTM) expo in London on Monday when it was officially opened by Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli alongside tourism minister Isaac Herzog.
The international trade show, which runs from November 6-9, is one of the international tourism and travel industry’s largest and most important trade events. The four-day expo brings together worldwide buyers and sellers from every sector of the industry with the aim of generating new sales leads in the international travel market.
Rafaeli, the girlfriend of movie star Leonardo DiCaprio said she was honoured to be asked by Minister of Tourism Herzog and said she is “ very proud” to represent Israel.
She said: “It’s a great honour to be here and I’m very proud to be representing Israel. As much as I’m succeeding abroad and my career, it only gives reason to explain to people where my roots are from and where I’m from and how special Israel is and I’m glad also to be able to have a voice abroad so I can show all that.” Asked what is special for her about Israel, she said: “I love Israel, it’s a tiny country that has everything, we have snow up in the north, deserts in the south, beautiful beaches, modern cities and historical sites.
“We really have everything and the more I travel in the world, the more I love and understand it,” she added.
“We are concentrating on a major new initiative to get back to the market after the war. We want to make it clear that things are calmer and quieter and put tourism back on track. Israel is an amazing place and we are showing lots of self-confidence.
“To help facilitate a recovery for Israeli tourism, we need to do it by changing people’s thoughts about Israel as it is different to how it is perceived. With the amazing things Israel has to offer, we are trying to radiate something positive, friendly and attractive and this is why we are working with Dead Sea products, Michal Negri, Bar Rafaeli and I think we are making a point and [the Israeli pavilion] seem to be a hit here at the show,” he added.
WTM takes place at Excel Exhibition Centre in London’s business capital, Canary Warf that sits on the River Thames. Over 48,000 exhibitors and visitors will pass through over the next days and 31 Israeli businesses will participate in this year’s event that include hotels, airlines, travel agents, car rental and many other companies.
Visitors to the 530 square meter Israeli pavilion will find a giant spa offering Dead Sea mud treatments and massages.
Herzog, together with Rafaeli and Kohistani, visited all the Israeli stalls and spoke to exhibitors before watching a fashion show, put on by Gottex and Michal Negrin, that attracted a huge number of visitors.
There will be a Gottex swim and beach wear fashion show twice daily throughout the expo and renowned jeweller Michal Negrin will also showcase Israeli products. A prize draw for free trips to the country, in conjunction with Osem and Ahava, will be held during “happy hour”.
November 10th, 2006
Let’s face it folks, supermodelElle MacPherson is hot. Not only is she hot, she kicks major booty, as evidenced in the thrashing she gave to a thug who tried to steal her purse.
The attempted robbery took place when MacPherson was arriving at an AIDS charity event in London recently. The would-be robber jumped on her, prompting MacPherson to use her martial arts skills and open a big ‘ole can of whoop-a#$ on ‘em.
Bravo Elle! We need more of models like her instead of prima donnas like Naomi Campbell.
In fact, that would make for an awesome comic book or movie — a supermodel during the day who fights crime at night — someone get Tim Burton on this!
Other stars at the event included Kevin Spacey and Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia.
November 9th, 2006
A homemade porn video and a teen horror flick have been Paris Hilton’s contribution to the movie biz, however, the heiress thinks she still “deserves” to have name immortalized on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, thanks to her fame.
The Hilton hotel babe, who was the leading lady in the homemade sex video ‘One Night In Paris’, and had a cameo role in horror film ‘House of Wax’, as well as reality TV series ‘The Simple Life’, was reportedly miffed at a recent ceremony to mark TV producer and LA Lakers basketball team owner Jerry Buss being awarded a star.
The 25-year old was overheard complaining that being “one of the most famous people on earth”, she “totally” deserved a star of her own.
“I don’t even know half these people. And, like, most of them are dead. I should totally have a star. I deserve one. I’m one of the most famous people on earth!” Life and Style Weekly magazine quoted Hilton, as saying.
November 9th, 2006
First she was accused by Colombia’s vice president of fuelling the country’s drugs problems, now it is the rise in Britain’s gun crime that supermodel Kate Moss has been partly blamed for by one of the country’s top police advisers. Lee Jasper, chairman of the Operation Trident Advisory Group which combats urban shootings, insists that celebs such as the catwalk beauty, 32, and her ‘junkie’ rocker boyfriend Pete Doherty are unconsciously helping fuel the growth of violent drug gangs on London’s streets by buying illegal drugs from them.
Moss was shamed in British newspapers last year when pictures of her snorting cocaine in a recording studio hit front pages. Doherty, meanwhile, has been convicted on drug possession charges and has also spent time in rehab fighting his addiction. “The middle classes and the Kate Mosses need to stop coming to places like Brixton (south London) to buy drugs,” Contactmusic quoted Jasper, as saying.
Last week, Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos expressed his dismay that Moss’ success following her drugs scandal had “glamorized” the narcotics trade that is tearing his country apart. The model, who was fired from a number of high-profile fashion contracts following her cocaine scandal, cemented her fashion comeback by being crowned queen of the catwalk at this year’s British Fashion Awards.
November 8th, 2006
Some love her. Others hate her. Paris Hilton’s latest biographer, who spent more than a year studying the world’s most famous “celebutante,” says he just feels sorry for her.
Part-time fashion model Paris Hilton, whose great-grandfather, Conrad, started the global Hilton Hotel empire, was catapulted to international fame in 2003 when a home video of her having sex with a former boyfriend was plastered all over the Internet.
Coupled with a popular reality television show called “The Simple Life,” Hilton used the publicity to build a multimillion-dollar celebrity juggernaut. The wannabe star’s outrageous behavior and skimpy clothing scored her headlines and magazine covers around the world.
Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer, author of “House of Hilton - From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege,” said Hilton, 25, has made herself into the IT girl of this decade, attracting scores of copycat fans.
But he said her partying and rich-girl antics — including a recent arrest for drunken driving — have irritated many others. Dislike of her is so strong that she recently topped a survey as the female star most people would like to see slain in a horror film.
She also reportedly has won a place in the 2007 Guinness World Records as “the most overrated celebrity,” and helped personify a new word, “celebutante,” a blend of “celebrity” and “debutante” meaning an attention seeker better known for misbehaving than for talent.
Loved or hated, Paris Hilton is here to stay for a while, Oppenheimer said.
“Her brilliance is getting the attention — the exhibitionism, canoodling with guys in clubs and getting on the covers of celebrity magazines around the world,” he said. Oppenheimer said he ended up feeling sorry for Hilton as he came to believe that her mother and maternal grandmother pushed her into using the family name and an exhibitionist streak to become a celebrity.
“Her mother, Kathy, put her in make-up and allowed her (into) nightclubs from a very young age,” Oppenheimer, a biographer of Martha Stewart and Rock Hudson, said in a telephone interview.
“I feel sorry for her because in a way she had no chance to do anything else but live the dreams that her grandmother and her mother had for themselves.”
Legal warnings from Hilton’s mother failed to stop the book and prompted family and friends to come out of the woodwork with their stories, Oppenheimer said.
He said he was surprised to find that Hilton’s maternal grandmother was the “stage mother from hell,” pushing her daughter into a modeling and acting career that never really took off.
Since Hilton hit the spotlight, her mother has appeared as the host on the reality television show “I Want To Be A Hilton” in an attempt to cash in on the fame of the oldest of her four children. But the show was criticized and had a limited run.
“It is a bizarre family,” said Oppenheimer. “Behind the scenes her parents were not opposed to (the sex video) because that totally launched her.”
Oppenheimer said it was hard to tell if Hilton was real or the invention of a clever marketing team that was aware her “heiress tag” is untrue. She stands to inherit little from the Hilton empire and needs to work for a living.
“Paris will say whatever comes into her head. She tends to make up stories and scenarios. I do wonder if she doesn’t live in a fantasy world herself,” Oppenheimer said.
November 7th, 2006
Supermodel Elle MacPherson is reportedly dating British TV star Ray Fearon. The 43-year-old beauty was spotted dining with Fearon, who is currently appearing on reality show “Strictly Come Dancing”, in central London on last Friday night. An onlooker says, “They were having a wonderful time. Ray was making Elle laugh and she looked like she didn’t want the evening to end.”
November 6th, 2006
Supermodel Kylie Bax filed a federal lawsuit in Los Angeles Friday against a French men’s magazine for putting two breast-baring photos of her on its wrapper.
Bax claims she did not give permission for the racy photographs, which were taken about six years ago, to be used on the front and back of Max Magazine’s April 2006 wrapper.
Although no other pictures of her appeared inside, New Zealand-born Bax contends in her lawsuit that the “cutting-edge, sexualized nature of the photographs” is inconsistent with the image she’s sought to develop.
Bax alleges that the photographer, Antoine Verglas, licensed his rights only after Max Magazine’s parent company, Mondadori France, assured him it would receive Bax’s permission before publishing them. She also claims she was never paid for the photographs or for the photo shoot that produced them. A Mondadori representative did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment late Friday.
Bax’s lawsuit does not specify the amount she is seeking from Mondadori, but contends she is entitled to more than $500,000 in damages.
November 6th, 2006
Supermodel Kate Moss, at the center of a cocaine scandal just over a year ago, has won the top accolade in British fashion, but the award has divided opinion and stirred fresh controversy over the celebrity.
The Model of the Year prize at British fashion’s answer to the Oscars late on Thursday sealed Moss’s recovery from a newspaper story that briefly threatened her career.
In September, 2005, photographs of the 32-year-old model apparently snorting cocaine appeared on the front page of British tabloid The Daily Mirror. Since then, “cocaine Kate” as she was dubbed has returned to the pinnacle of her profession and she was not charged over the allegations.
Some commentators and drug charities are concerned over what the award says about fashion and what signals it sends to young people tempted to use drugs.
But fellow models and celebrities have defended Moss, pointing to her commercial success and her willingness to apologize for her behavior. “I think it’s a bad reflection on the world of fashion,” said Jane Ennis, editor of celebrity magazine Now.
“The fact that she has become an even bigger icon since getting into all this trouble is fantastically decadent. Sometimes commercial interests should be set aside to look at the wider picture.”
George Ruston, director of Hope UK, a drug education charity in Britain, called the award “unhelpful” and said advertisers were as much to blame as Moss
November 5th, 2006
Supermodel Maggie Rizer returned to her hometown this week to begin working on an AIDS documentary being directed by Alexandra Kerry, the daughter of U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
The film, titled “Maggie and Me,” is being produced by AIDS activist Suzanne Engo, whose father is a former ambassador to the United Nations from the African country of Cameroon.
Engo founded the New York AIDS Film Festival, which was launched at the UN in 2003. The festival is committed to the celebration of life and the use of film and television as tools to fight HIV/AIDS.
The UN has thrown its support behind the documentary, which will explore how “the next generation” in the United States and Africa deals with the AIDS crisis, said publicist Hilla Narov.
Plans call for scenes to be filmed in Watertown and Cameroon, she said. The film is expected to be completed next year.
A clip from the film will be screened at the AIDS Film Festival in December in New York City, where Rizer will be honored for her work in increasing awareness and support for those with the disease, Narov said.
Rizer’s father died of AIDS in 1992 at age 38. Maggie, a 1996 Watertown High School graduate, has appeared on the covers of Mademoiselle, George, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Allure.
November 4th, 2006
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